A woman in Rockford, Illinois, does her laundry in her basement, like many often do. In her case, however, she has to traverse through what can only be described as a dungeon, fearing for her life as she attempts to get her clean and wet clothes out of the washing machine.
The terrifying clip was shared on TikTok by user hiitsmillzy, also known as Millzy. According to her, she visits her basement every night to do laundry. It is a shared basement, though, as she lives in an apartment building alongside many other residents, some potentially creepy, given how serious she got.
Armed with a baseball bat, the Illinois woman showed the internet the eerie, shadowy realm she was stepping into as she walked down to the basement. As she turned to the right in an otherwise normal, albeit dark, room, the atmosphere changed drastically.
The walls were barely painted, with pipes adorning them. At the corner, though, she stopped and looked to her left. Millzy said, “I got to check this corner,” without explaining further, potentially fearing that someone or something might be lurking in the dark.
She went ahead and entered the laundry room. With a single light making the shadows even more terrifying, Millzy got to the machines. That was the easy part: doing the laundry is the scariest thing of them all.
“I gotta do my laundry in hopes that nobody is behind me, and I gotta do it quick,” Millzy said.
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The creepiness of the place didn’t let up, though, as the Illinois woman revealed a mysterious door hidden behind a fridge. Tempting for horror fanatics, Millzy has refused to go in there, imagining that an eldritch creature might snatch her from this reality.
“I don’t know what that door is. I’m not going in,” she said. She added, “You don’t know what a scary basement is until you’ve been in mine.”
Garnering more than 45,000 likes and 8,000 comments, users were terrified by Millzy’s basement.
“Just buy new clothes every week. It’s not even that serious,” one user said. Another one commented, “I’d be sending my stuff to a wash and fold.” A third one added, “The number of human-shaped inanimate objects is out of this world.”
At this point, the police, scientists, and even priests should visit Millzy’s basement. After all, the fear of the unknown is the oldest and strongest kind of fear, and that basement might as well house Cthulhu or be part of the Backrooms.
